Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures, appendices, etc., as
a single file (Word, RTF, or PDF files are accepted).

Page size should be 8.5 x 11-inches.

All margins (left, right, top and bottom) should be 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), including your tables and figures.

Single space your text.

Use a single column layout with both left and right margins justified.

Font:

Main Body—12 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available

Footnotes—10 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available

If figures are included, use high-resolution figures, preferably encoded as encapsulated PostScript
(eps).

Copyedit your manuscript.

When possible, there should be no pages where more than a quarter of the page is empty space.

Additional Recommendations

Indenting, Line Spacing, and Justification

Indent all paragraphs except those following a section heading. An indent should be at least 2 em-spaces.

Do not insert extra space between paragraphs of text with the exception of
long quotations, theorems, propositions, special remarks, etc. These should be
set off from the surrounding text by additional space above and below.

Don't "widow" or "orphan" text (i.e., ending
a page with the first line of a paragraph or beginning a page with the last line
of a paragraph).

All text should be left-justified (i.e., flush with the left margin—except where indented). Where possible, it should also be right-justified (i.e., flush with the right margin). "Where possible" refers to the quality of the justification. For example, LaTeX and TeX do an excellent job of justifying text. Word does a reasonable job. But some word processors do a lousy job (e.g., they achieve
right justification by inserting too much white space within and between words).
We prefer flush right margins. However, it is better to have jagged right margins than to have flush right margins with awkward intra- and inter-word spacing. Make your decision on whichever looks
best.

Language & Grammar

All submissions must be in English.
Except for common foreign words and phrases, the use of
foreign words and phrases should be avoided.

Authors should use proper, standard English grammar. The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White (now in its fourth edition) is the "standard"
guide, but other excellent guides (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style,
University of Chicago Press) exist as well.

Article Length

Because this journal publishes electronically, page limits are not as relevant
as they are in the world of print publications. We are happy, therefore, to let
authors take advantage of this greater "bandwidth" to include material that they
might otherwise have to cut to get into a print journal. This said, authors should
exercise some discretion with respect to length.

Colored text

Set the font color to black for the majority of the text.
We encourage authors to take advantage of the ability to use color
in the production of figures, maps, etc., however, you need to
appreciate that this will cause some of your readers problems when they
print the document on a black & white printer. For this reason, you are
advised to avoid the use of colors in situations where their translation to
black and white would render the material illegible or incomprehensible.

Please ensure that there are no colored mark-ups or comments in the final version, unless they are meant to be part of the final text. (You may need to "accept all changes" in track changes or set your document to "normal" in final markup.)

Emphasized text

Whenever possible use italics to indicate text
you wish to emphasize rather than underlining it. The use of color to
emphasize text is discouraged.

Font faces

Except, possibly, where special symbols are needed, use Times or the closest comparable font available. If you desire a
second font, for instance for headings, use a sans serif font (e.g., Arial or Computer
Modern Sans Serif).

Font size

The main body of text should be set in 12pt. Avoid the use of fonts smaller than 6pt.

Foreign terms

Whenever possible, foreign terms should be set in italics rather
than underlined.

Headings

Headings (e.g., start of sections) should be distinguished from the
main body text by their fonts or by using small caps. Use
the same font face for all headings and indicate the hierarchy by reducing
the font size. There should be space above and below headings.

Main text

The font for the main body of text must be black and, if at all possible,
in Times or closest comparable font available.

Titles

Whenever possible, titles of books, movies, etc., should be set in italics
rather than underlined.

Footnotes

Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced
rather than at the end of the paper. Footnotes should be in 10 pt. Times or closest comparable font available, they should be single spaced, and there
should be a footnote separator rule (line).
Footnote numbers or symbols in the text must follow, rather than precede,
punctuation. Excessively long footnotes are probably better handled in an appendix. All footnotes should be left and right-justified (i.e., flush with the right margin), unless this creates awkward spacing.

Tables and Figures

To the extent possible, tables and figures should appear in the document near where they
are referenced in the text. Large tables or figures should be put on pages by themselves.
Avoid the use of overly small type in tables. In no case should tables or figures be in a
separate document or file. All tables and figures must fit within 1.5" margins on all sides (top, bottom, left and right) in both portrait and landscape view.

Mathematics

Roman letters used in mathematical expressions as variables
should be italicized. Roman letters used as part of
multi-letter function names should not be italicized.
Whenever possible, subscripts and superscripts should be a smaller font
size than the main text.

Short mathematical expressions should be typed inline.
Longer expressions should appear as display math.
Also expressions using many different levels (e.g., such as the fractions) should be set as display math. Important definitions or concepts
can also be set off as display math.

Equations should be numbered sequentially. Whether equation numbers are
on the right or left is the choice of the author(s). However, you are expected to
be consistent in this.

Symbols and notation in unusual fonts should be
avoided. This will not only enhance the clarity of the manuscript, but it will
also help insure that it displays correctly on the reader's screen and prints correctly
on her printer. When proofing your document under PDF pay particular
attention to the rendering of the mathematics, especially symbols and notation
drawn from other than standard fonts.

References

It is the author's obligation to provide complete references with the
necessary information. After the last sentence of your submission, please insert a line break—not a page break—and begin your references on the same page, if possible. References should appear right after the end of the document, beginning on the last page if possible. References should have margins that are both left and right- justified. You may choose not to right-justify the margin of one or more references if the spacing looks too awkward.
Each reference should give the last names of all the authors, their first names
or first initials, and, optionally, their middle initials. The hierarchy for ordering
the references is:

Last name of first author

First name of first author

Last name of second author (if any). Co-authored work is listed after
solo-authored work by the same first author (e.g., Edlin, Aaron S. would
precede Edlin, Aaron S. and Stefan Reichelstein).

First name of second author

Publication date

Order cited in text

The information to be given with each citation in the references is as follows:

Articles in traditional journals:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title
of article, name of journal, year of publication (or "n.d." if no date),
volume number, page numbers.

Optional (but desirable): issue number
and month/season of publication. For forthcoming (in press) articles, put
expected year of publication and substitute "forthcoming" for the volume
and page numbers.

Optional(but desirable): A hyperlink to the article.

Books:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of book, year of publication
(or "n.d." if no date), publisher, publisher's address, edition (if not
first). For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year of publication
and add "forthcoming."

Chapters in collections or anthologies:

Required: Name(s) of author(s) of
chapter, name(s) of editor(s) of book, title of chapter, title of book, year
of publication (or "n.d." if no date), publisher, publisher's address, and
edition (if not first). For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year
of publication and add "forthcoming."

Working papers:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of working paper,
year (or "n.d." if no date), location (e.g., "Department of Economics
Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley" or "Author's web site:
http://www.someurl.edu/author." If the working paper is part of series,
then the series name and the number of the working paper within
the series must also be given.

Other works:

Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of work, year (or
"n.d." if no date), and information about how the reader could obtain a
copy.

Within the references section, the citations can be formatted as you like,
provided (i) the formatting is consistent and (ii) each citation begins with the
last name of the first author. That is, the following would all be acceptable:

Smith, Adam (1776) The Wealth of Nations, . . .

Smith, A., The Wealth of Nations, . . . , 1776.

Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations, 1776, . . .

Use hanging indents for citations (i.e., the first line of the citation should be
flush with the left margin and all other lines should be indented from the left
margin by a set amount). Citations should be single-spaced with extra space
between citations.

When works by the same author are listed in a row, use — instead of
writing the name again. Hence, one might have

Smith, Adam: The Wealth of Nations, . . .

—: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, . . .

Similarly, instead of repeating two names use

"— and —."

For instance,

Edlin, A. and S. Reichelstein (1995) . . .
— and — (1996) . . .

Within the text of your manuscript, use the author-date method of citation.
For instance,

"As noted by Smith (1776)."

When there are two authors, use both last names. For instance,

"Edlin and Reichelstein (1996) claim . . . "

If there are three or more authors give the last name of the first author and
append et al. For instance, a 1987 work by Abel, Baker, and Charley, would
be cited as

"Abel et al. (1987)."

If two or more cited works share the same authors and dates, use "a," "b," and so on to distinguish among them. For instance,

"Jones (1994b) provides a more general analysis of the model introduced
in Example 3 of Jones (1994a)."

After the first cite in the text using the
author-date method, subsequent cites can use just the last names if that would
be unambiguous. For example, Edlin and Reichelstein (1996) can be followed
by just Edlin and Reichelstein provided no other Edlin & Reichelstein article is
referenced; if one is, then the date must always be attached.

When citations appear within parentheses, use commas—rather than parentheses
or brackets—to separate the date from the surrounding text. For instance,